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Nice post.

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

In other words, the central government shall no longer have any authority to abolish or interfere in any States slavery laws. Simple. Sounds to me like a strong states-rights stance. There are those, (some on this thread) who in this year 2024 will bend, twist, spindle and mutilate that most basic statement and use it to prove that Lincoln, Republicans and the Union were promoting Slavery everywhere and forevermore. I put forth that they are part and parcel to the very people who have contributed to bringing our country to its knees today, by tarnishing our heritage.

“There are those, (some on this thread) who in this year 2024 will bend, twist, spindle and mutilate that most basic statement and use it to prove that Lincoln, Republicans and the Union were promoting Slavery everywhere and forevermore.”

Lincoln wasn’t promoting slavery, just protecting it in the United States Constitution forever.

His determination to repatriate black people to elsewhere was a backup plan.

HandyDandy: "There are those, (some on this thread) who in this year 2024 will bend, twist, spindle and mutilate that most basic statement and use it to prove that Lincoln, Republicans and the Union were promoting Slavery everywhere and forevermore.
I put forth that they are part and parcel to the very people who have contributed to bringing our country to its knees today, by tarnishing our heritage."

It's well worth noticing how many of our pro-secessionists also support Russia's invasion of Ukraine!??!

The names Yevgeny Prigozhin and Internet Research Agency (IRA) out of Olgino, St. Petersburg come to my mind, though most of our posters here pre-date the IRA's founding in 2013.
On the other hand, Putin's Old KGB Web Brigades go all the way back to the year 2000, when Putin first came to power in Russia, and Russians or Soviets were working at information operations for many decades prior.

They would certainly love nothing better than to force the USA into the kind of collapse as the Old Soviet Union suffered in 1991.

Of course, it's not going to happen, not ever, but that won't be for lack of trying by a good many Lost Cause posters on Free Republic.

Said to be the IRA, Olgino, St. Petersburg, "bot farm":